Top 9 Tick Borne Diseases to Be Aware OfWhether you live in a home surrounded by grassy fields, timbery woodlands, or mountainous terrain, you may come in contact with a tick. You could be camping in a national park or weeding the garden beds in your own yard when the critter decides to take a bite from your delicious flesh. Contrary to what many may think, a tick is not an insect. It is an arachnid, which makes it more related to the spider than … [Read more...]

Lyme Disease is a prevalent tick-borne bacterial infection found in the US, Europe and other parts of the world. In the US, it originates from a ‘corkscrew-shaped’ bacterium - Borrelia burgdorferi. A spirochete transmitted through a bite of infected tick belonging to the genera Ixodes scapularis. This also goes by the name of ‘deer’ or ‘black-legged’ tick, and Ixodes pacificus; the ‘Western black-legged’ tick, carrying the bacterium from biting … [Read more...]